Britney Spears: Britney Jean Spears was
born in rural Louisiana (Kentwood) on December 2, 1981, to Jamie and Lynne
Spears. As a child, Britney attended dance classes, and she was great at
gymnastics, winning many competitions and the like. But, most of all, Britney
loved to sing. At age 8, Britney tried out for "The All New Mickey Mouse Club"
(1989), but was turned down due to her young age. This directed her to an
off-Broadway show, "Ruthless", for a 2-year run as the title character. At age
11, she again tried for "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989) and this time
made it as a mouseketeer along side many stars of today (Justin Timberlake and
J.C. Chasez of N*Sync and Ryan Gosling). Her big break, however, came when she
was signed as a Jive Recording Artist in the late 90s. With the release of her
debut album, "...Baby One More Time" in early 1999, Britney became an
international success, selling 13 million copies of "Baby" and 9 million (as of
July 2001) of her sophomore album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," released in May of
2000.

Mini Biography
"Pop Phenomenon" doesn't come close to describing Britney Spears. The name is
legend around the world. So famous is Britney Spears now that it's impossible to
imagine a World in which she doesn't exist.

Born on 2 December 1981 in the small town of Kentwood, Louisiana, to parents
Jamie and Lynne Spears, Britney is their second child of three. Her older
brother Brian was born in April 1977 and her younger sister, Jamie-Lynn was born
in April 1991. From a young age, Britney was always fixing to be a star with
idols such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, the young Britney could
always be heard singing, no matter what else was going on around her. After
taking extensive dance and vocal lessons and performing in numerous talent shows
and fairs, Britney auditioned for _"The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989 TV
series) [1989-1994]"_ when she 8, however she was too young to get the part.
Instead, Britney, her mother and baby sister moved to New York where she starred
in several TV adverts and an off broad-way play "Ruthless", where she was
under-study with Natalie Portman. Her love of music and dance took over and 2
years later she auditioned for a part in Mickey Mouse again and this time won
the part along with Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. As a Mouseketeer,
Britney received extensive training in dance, drama and singing and had to grow
up a lot during that time. However, after the show was canceled two years later,
Britney returned home and did "the normal teenager thing", attending pool
parties and she was also the homecoming Queen. As a young teenager, Britney soon
grew restless again and this time was desperate to become a star yet again.
Again, she traveled to New York and sent out demo tapes to various labels
including Sony and Mercury, but was turned down. It was Jive Records that
finally took the young Britney on and set out on making her the star she is
today.

She hit the studio with writers/producers such as Max Martin and Eric Foster
White and the result was her debut album. In late 1998, Jive released her debut
single "(Hit me) Baby one more time" which was a pop hit around the Globe,
accompanied by the sixteen year old first of many controversial acts - the
video, which featured Britney dressed in a Catholic Schoolgirl Uniform, baring
her midriff, which was soon to become her trademark. Nonetheless, the single was
a smash worldwide and Britney was instantly a Household name. She toured with
popular boy band N*Sync and the single shot to the top of the charts for 3
weeks. Her debut album was released a few months later in early 1999 and like
the single took to the top of the album charts, where it remained number one for
six weeks. The album has now sold millions worldwide and is officially 14 x
platinum in the US. Her next controversial act, after the video, was to take the
cover of Rolling Stones magazine in a suggestive pose, but as Britney mania took
off, the 17 year-old became more and more popular. Appealing to young girls,
teenage boys and older men, Britney was on her way, yet nobody could have
predicted at that time the impact she would have on Pop Culture. The second
single, "Sometimes" was released in June 1999 followed on by the top 10 hit
"Crazy" in September and "from the bottom of my broken heart" soon after.
Britney ended 1999 selling over 10 million copies of her debut and as the
Billboard Top Female Pop Artist (singles and albums), Top New Pop Artist, Top
Billboard 200 album Artist and Top 100 singles Artist - female. The American
Awards, MTV and Teen Choice awards soon began rolling in and in early 2000
Britney was nominated for two Grammy awards.

At just 18, Britney released her second album in 2000, the #1 smash "Oops! I did
it again" and single of the same title, which topped the singles chart for 5
weeks. Smash singles "Stronger" and "Lucky" followed, but it was around this
time that Britney was beginning to raise more than a few eyebrows. It seemed
some people weren't too happy with the message she was sending their
impressionable young children. On one hand, Britney was the perfect picture of
innocence, declaring herself a Virgin until marriage yet on the other hand, she
was sexually charged and provocative, with performance such as the MTV Video
Music Awards in 2000, when her costume made her appear scantily-clad. As the
young woman was growing up, it seemed there was an internal conflict between
her, her management and her mother, all pulling her in different directions. Yet
the image the public saw was a gorgeous young woman, beautifully dressed and
damn close to perfection, often labeled the "Pop Princess" around the world.
Still, the awards kept rolling in and in early 2001 Britney struck a lucrative
deal with Pepsi-Cola for Sponsorship and advertising. The 19 year-old was
growing up fast, with the media constantly fixed on what she was and wasn't
doing, her "rivalry" with former fellow Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera and also
her blossoming relationship with N*Sync heartthrob Justin Timberlake. Britney
was keen that people saw her as a growing woman as she began to ready the public
for her next LP release in late 2001.

In November, she hit the top 10 with the sexually charged "I'm a slave 4 u"
which took a completely different turn in musical direction from her previous
singles and in the same month released her third LP, self-titled "Britney" which
shot to the top of the albums charts, breaking records for a female artist. Her
performance of "Slave" at the MTV VMA's caused outrage among animal rights
campaigners, as she performed with a live giant Snake and wearing little
herself. It was a far cry from the Britney of just three years ago, and perhaps
the critical moment when what some people would say "she started going
downhill". Sales of her third album, while impressive, where not nearly as high
as her former releases, perhaps due to the increase of new pop female singers
flooding the market, yet Britney, still incredibly popular, carried on. In early
2002, the 20 year-old Britney released "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman", taken
from the soundtrack of her debut movie Crossroads (2002/I) which was released in
February that year. She soon after hit the charts with "Overprotected" and also
toured Worldwide on the "Dream within a dream tour". Yet it seemed it was all
getting too much for Britney, her four year relationship with Timberlake ended
suddenly and very publicly and she soon announced she was to take 6 months off,
after all, she had achieved so much by such a young age and in such a short
space of time. Her star was by no means fading, with "Forbes" declaring her "The
Worlds most powerful celebrity" in mid-2002.

While she may have been on a break from her career, she was by no means breaking
from the media, who followed her relentlessly, even more keen to track her down
and find out what she was up to. Britney was increasingly letting her pop
princess crown slip, admitting she had lost her sacred virginity to Timberlake,
outside of marriage. Britney could also be seen smoking and drinking to excess
on wild nights out and famously breaking down in tears while being interviewed
by Diane Sawyer about her parents (who were recently divorced) and her bitter
split from Timberlake. Britney was linked to men such as Fred Durst of Limp
Bizkit and openly kissed Colin Farrell at a movie premiere. However, she seemed
to get herself back together for her new album released in late 2003. In a blitz
of publicity which included the infamous "Like a Virgin" performance and Madonna
kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards in August that year. The new album "In The
Zone" was a bid to be seen as a woman and caused controversy with songs on it
such as "Breathe on me" and "Touch of my hand" - which was about masturbation -
however, the appeal of Britney was still there and the album topped the
Billboard 200 albums charts. The first single to be lifted was "Me against the
music" a club hit that featured pop icon Madonna and singing with her was a
dream come true for Britney. Now 22, it seemed Britney was in a lot more control
over her career, yet her personal life still seemed to be slipping. In January
2004, Britney got "married" to childhood friend Jason Alexander in a Las Vegas
ceremony. The incident shocked the world, especially when the marriage was
annulled 55 hours later and was described as "a joke taken too far" by her
management.

Britney soon released one of her biggest singles, "Toxic" which topped various
charts around the world including the UK and Canadian singles charts. The single
was a smash-hit and silenced any critics that said Britney no longer had what it
took to make a comeback. She soon began her highly publicized and overtly sexual
"Onyx Hotel Tour" which was canceled a few months later after Britney damaged
her knee during a video shoot and had to receive medical treatment. Other
singles off the album included the Gold Selling "Everytime", which topped the UK
singles charts and like usual, also carried a fair amount of controversy for its
video, which allegedly depicted the star committing suicide after a fight with
her boyfriend, played by Stephen Dorff ; however, this was "changed" to an
accident in which she drowns yet reincarnates. It was around this time that
Britney began dating Kevin Federline, a former back up dancer who she had taken
on tour with her a few months previously. The snag here was that Kevin came with
baggage - in the form of an "ex" girlfriend, heavily pregnant "Moesha" (1996)
actress Shar Jackson and their young child. Britney and Kevin soon became
engaged and in September 2004 were married in a secret ceremony, soon after the
birth of Kevin's second child. That same month, Britney released a single off
her upcoming "Greatest Hits" album (released in November 2004) a cover of Bobby
Browns 1988 hit "My Prerogative".

Britney was a changed woman, no longer concerned with what the public thought of
her or her appearance, she parted ways with her manager who she had had since
she was 13, and was increasingly stepping out looking more "trailer trash" than
Multi-Millionaire. In February 2005, Britney won her first Grammy for the single
"Toxic" as Best Dance Recording. Just two months later, it was announced Britney
was pregnant her first child. A reality TV Series "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic"
(2005), which featured the pair getting to know each other the previous year,
leading up to their wedding aired on UPN and eventually got a world wide
audience, despite harsh criticism. In September 2005, Britney evolved yet again,
this time as a devoted wife and mother, with the birth of her first child, a
Son, which she named Sean Preston. In November that year, she released a remix
album "B in the mix, the Remixes".

Looking back over the last seven years of this remarkable ladies career and
life, it really is hard to imagine what the face of Pop would look like without
her. Here is a 24 year-old woman who has grown in the face of the glaring media
from innocent School-girl to Sexual Pop Vixen to Young wife and Mother. Who
knows what is next for Britney? Rumours of a comeback album for 2006 have been
circulating for a while and also a few more movie productions, yet one thing is
for certain: Britney Spears has worked hard to get to where she is today and by
no means will she be disappearing any time soon. Her name and face is legend in
the media and celebrity circuit and it's surely only a matter of time before
Spears shocks us all again, with her next album or tour or movie or personal
move. One thing is for certain though: the public will be watching.

Trivia
Attended Parklane Academy, a private school in McComb, Mississippi until October
1994. She was on the girls' basketball team.

Was offered a role in Scary Movie (2000), but was forced to turn it down, due to
concert scheduling.

Sister of Bryan Spears.

Her idol is Madonna.

Sister of Jamie Lynn Spears.

Studied at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School.

Daughter of Lynne Spears.

First solo artist ever to have a #1 album and single on the Billboard charts at
the same time with a debut.

Worked at a novelty shop before making it big.

One of "Teen People" Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21". [1999]

Caused a stir with the American Family Association by posing in her underwear on
the cover of Rolling Stone. [1999]

Was one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1999]

Ended up as the youngest cast member of "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989);
during the initial audition, she won the part after Jessica Simpson freaked out
at the final question during the initial audition.

Announced that she will attend college and eventually wants to study
entertainment law. [2000]

In her first song "Baby One More Time" there is a line "My loneliness is killing
me" and in another of her songs, "Stronger", there is a line "My loneliness
ain't killing me no more".

Is a natural brunette. She often prefers to dye her hair blonde.

Her flesh-colored outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards created a stir, as it
made her look scantily clad. [September 2000]

Requested that writers change the lyrics of her song "Born to Make You Happy."
The original version contained sexually explicit lyrics, and Britney felt she
was too young to be singing it.

Chicago-based DNA Visual Business Solutions filed a lawsuit against her and her
marketing companies, including Britney Brands, Inc., claiming that they failed
to pay fees due to the web-designing company for helping set up her website,
www.britneyspears.com. [October 2000]

Accepted an endorsement from Pepsi to do TV commercials promoting the soft
drink. The first commercial was slated for the 2001 Academy Awards. [2001]

Was selected as #2 among the 100 sexiest women in FHM Magazine. [2001]

March 2001: Her video for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" features her doing
a love scene with a 23-year-old male model. The original cut contained material
so sexually explicit that mother Lynne Spears ordered that parts of the video be
edited for content before its release to the public in the spring of 2001.

In her first starring role in the film Crossroads (2002/I), her character was
supposed to swear. She ordered that the curse words be taken out so as not to
tarnish her image for the younger pre-teen viewers of the film.

2001: During the concert "Rock in Rio" in Brazil, a tape recorder caught her
swearing on a microphone she wasn't aware was connected. She was complaining
about the fact that they were not playing a vamp before she was to go on stage.
Tape recordings of the incident were downloaded by Napster users.

2001: Host of the American Music Awards.

June 2001: Two Texas DJs created a panic for her fans when they falsely reported
that the pop princess and her boyfriend, NSYNC's Justin Timberlake, were in a
car accident and that she had died in the crash.

Wrote two books about herself, one with her mom.

September 2001: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
complained to her about the use of four caged cheetahs and a snake for her
performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, claiming that animals trained
for performances are mistreated during the training.

September 2001: Announced that she aims to raise $2 million from her fall tour
earnings to donate to the children of police officers and firemen who died when
the World Trade Center collapsed.

2001: Her deal with Pepsi netted her upwards of $10 million.

11/11/99: She was the big winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards held in Dublin,
winning the awards for Best Female, Best Pop, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best
Song for her hit "...Baby One More Time".

2001: Named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".

She was an aerobic instructor at the gym her parents owned.

2001: Turned down an offer to pose nude for a PETA anti-fur campaign ad.

2002: Voted one of the "Fun and Fearless Females" by Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Though it had been rumored that she would be guesting on the sexually suggestive
HBO series "Sex and the City" (1998), playing the niece of Kim Cattrall's
character Samantha Jones, a spokesman for HBO denied the reports, saying no such
negotiations ever took place.

March 2002: Her Crossroads (2002/I) co-star Taryn Manning denied reports that
she, Spears, and Zoe Saldana did a topless scene that was cut from the final
edit of the film. According to her and the film's producer, Ann Carli, the
"flashing" scene was filmed only from the neck up, and none of the three
actresses involved was actually topless during the shoot.

2002: Arrived an hour late for the UK premiere of Crossroads (2002/I) and
snubbed fans who had been waiting for her to arrive.

2000: Was voted by 'People' magazine as the fourth most influential person of
that year.

2002: Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.

2001: Was ranked 5th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan.

June 2002: Came in at #2 in the American edition of FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002
poll.

11/17/03: Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is tied with Melissa
Gilbert for being the youngest person to accept a Walk of Fame star.

1/3/04: "Taking a joke too far," according to a statement released by her label,
she married childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel
in Las Vegas, but quickly had it annulled.

Is a huge fan of Björk.

Has British ancestry on her mother's side of her family.

May 2004: She finally gained the top spot in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the
World 2004", moving up from #2 last year.

The other understudy for her off-Broadway role in "Ruthless" was now famous
actress Natalie Portman. The two still keep in touch and met recently through a
party in New York City.

Shoe size 6, Bust size 33C.

Is good friends with Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Was ranked #4 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties.

Considered for a role in Chicago (2002). The part went to Lucy Liu.

2004: Acquired a white Maltese dog named Lacy.

Was considered for the role of Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). The
role eventually went to Jessica Simpson.

Is the first woman to have four albums go straight to #1 on the American charts.

Spring 2004: Had emergency arthroscopic surgery after she injured her knee an
the set of her music video "Outrageous".

Her wedding dress was designed by 'Monique L'Huillier'.

Has a tattoo of a small black-winged fairy on the back of her spine.

Wrote a "letter of truth" to her fans which was published on her official
website, telling her fans that she needed to take a hiatus from her career to
concentrate on her marriage with her new husband Kevin Federline and start a
family with him. The move thus displeased her bosses at Jive Records. She later
had two children with Federline before divorcing him.

2004: Her perfume "Curious" was one of the best selling fragrances of the year.

Angered the animal rights group PETA for wearing a fur jacket on the cover of
her "Greatest Hits Album: My Prerogative". She claims she was told it was fake
fur. This is the second time PETA has criticized her after she performed on
stage with a caged tiger and a snake at the 2001 MTV music awards, after which
she apologized and posed for an anti-fur poster.

2002: Ranked #1 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World".

Her name is an anagram of "Presbyterians".

She is mentioned in the songs "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem, "Riot Girl" by
Good Charlotte, "Don't Let Me Get Me" by Pink and "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley
Cyrus.

As of 2010, she is the best-selling female artist of the decade.

February 2005: Won her first Grammy for Best Dance Recording for "Toxic".

In her "...Baby One More Time" music video, her love interest is played by her
cousin.

The school scenes in her "Baby One More Time" music video were filmed in the
same place the movie Grease (1978) was shot.

April 2005: The guy in her "Curious" fragrance commercial is played by actor
Eric Winter of the daytime soap "Days of Our Lives" (1965).

Has two stepchildren (her ex-husband's children from a previous relationship):
Kori (b. July 31 2002,) and Kaleb (b. July 20, 2004).

July 2002: Opened a trendy restaurant on East 41st St., New York City, called "Nyla",
which is themed around her home state of Louisiana.

Good friends with singer Madonna. They made a song together called "Me Against
the Music". The song is on her album "In the Zone".

Is mentioned in Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady" and is spoofed in the song's
music video.

Shares her birthday with Nelly Furtado, Lucy Liu and Gianni Versace.

She wrote her song "Someday" two weeks before she found out she was pregnant.

1996, 1997: Elected junior high most beautiful.

She is the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first
four albums debut at number one.

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Her ex-husband Kevin Federline was a background dancer for her ex-boyfriend
Justin Timberlake.

Likes to wear T-shirts with slogans on them.

9/14/05: Son Sean Federline born at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center by
Caesarian section. Father is ex-husband Kevin Federline.

October 2005: She and Kevin Federline were forced to leave their home in
California because a brush fire threatened to destroy it and several other
houses in that area (including the one of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith).

11 January 2006: Topped the 2005 "Worst Dressed" list of fashion critic Richard
Selzer (aka Mr. Blackwell) for wearing clothes that he said made her look like
an "over-the-hill Lolita".

2006: Named "Most Controversial Celebrity of 2006" by CNN Headline News for her
actions making people discuss about everything from proper parenthood to
appearing in public without panties.

2006: Michael Fredo wrote a song about her called "Popstar Lovelife (Britney, I
Know)".

1/10/07: After topping the 2005 "Worst Dressed" list of fashion critic 'Mr.
Blackwell', she shared the #1 spot with Paris Hilton in 2006 for wearing clothes
that made them look like "two peas in an overexposed box".

2004: Offered to perform at the Republican National Convention, but was turned
down.

February 2007: After shaving her own head with clippers in a Sherman Oaks (CA)
hair salon, she visited a tattoo parlor and got several tattoos. Her weird
behavior caused worldwide public attention. Some days later she admitted herself
to a California treatment facility, but checked out after less than 24 hours.

April 2007: Manager Larry Rudolph sent her to rehab in early 2007. She fired
him.

4/2/07: Crowned the "April Fool" (by 76% of all voters) in the "Most Foolish"
survey of New York publicist Jeff Barge.

Ranked #8 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Was signed on for a role in a film entitled "In The Pink" co-starring comedians
Wanda Sykes and Tim Allen, Academy Award winner Cher, and Academy Award nominee
Bette Midler. The film was scrapped after years of delay.

October 2007: Lost physical custody of her two sons with Kevin Federline due to
not having a valid driver's license and failing to take a random drug and
alcohol test. Federline has sole custody of the children.

Her 1999 album "Baby, One More Time" has sold 25 million copies worldwide.

After a lengthy custody battle over their sons Sean Preston and Jayden James,
she and Kevin Federline agreed that he retains sole custody of the children,
while she keeps her visitation rights.

Did not return to work until five months after giving birth to her son Sean
Preston in order to begin recording her fifth studio album Blackout.

At 18, she became the youngest person in the history of "Saturday Night Live"
(1975) to act as a host and the musical guest at the same time on May 13, 2000.
She did the same on February 2, 2002 and appeared as the musical guest only on
October 18, 2003.

On March 2, 2009 it was announced that she would be the new face of Candie's,
taking over from actress Hayden Panettiere.

Her 2009 world tour, "The Circus Starring Britney Spears", became a huge
commercial success. The tour's opening show, as well as every show in the two
North American legs were sold out, with a total gross of $94 million. The tour
also became the highest grossing tour of the year by a solo artist in North
America, as well as the fourth overall.

Her single "Outrageous was chosen as the title track for the film Catwoman
(2004), but after she injured her knee shooting the music video for the song,
the idea was scrapped. Mis-Teeq's single "Scandalous" was chosen as a
replacement.

Her sixth album, Circus, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making her
the youngest female artist in history to have five albums debut at number one,
thus earning her a place in the Guiness Book of World Records.

Often works with songwriter Max Martin.

Her sixth studio album, Circus, was released on 2nd December 2008, her 27th
birthday.

Her single "3" has the shortest title of any song ever reaching number one on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Her single "3", from her second greatest hits album, The Singles Collection,
made her the first artist in over three years to debut at the top position on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the only non-American Idol artist in eleven
years to do so.

On November 6, 2008, she won two awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008,
"Album of The Year" for Blackout and "Act of 2008".

In 2009, after years of absence, Forbes magazine listed her as the 13th most
powerful celebrity and the second most top-earning young musician as she made
$35 million from June 2008 to June 2009.

Lady Gaga's song "Telephone" was originally written for Spears' sixth album
Circus. However, after it failed to make the album's final track listing, Gaga
recorded the song as a collaboration with 'Beyonce Knowles' for her second
album, The Fame Monster.

Her 6th studio album "Circus" which was released in 2008, became her fifth
number 1 album.

Won a Grammy award for her hit song "Toxic." By 2010, Spears received 8 Grammy
nominations.

Britney Spears has sold over 100 million albums world wide, making her one of
the best-selling American recording artists.

On December 11, 2009 Billboard Magazine named Spears as the second-best selling
act of the 2000s.

Her song "Womanizer" gained first-week download sales of 286,000, which is the
biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began
tracking digital downloads in 2003.

Her song "Womanizer" became her fifth number one song on the charts, which put
her in a tie for second place for the most number one Top 40 songs in the
Mainstream Top 40's sixteen year history. Mariah Carey is in first place with
six number one songs.

As of 2009, Spears has had 6 number one singles on the European Hot 100 Singles
Chart.

In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful
and Influential celebrities in the world (earning more than $64 million in
2009). She is also ranked as the third most powerful musician in the world.

As of May 2010, Spears became the most popular person on twitter, with more than
5.2 million followers at that time.

Her 2009 'Circus' tour was the 5th highest-grossing tour of the year. According
to concert trade publication Pollstar, "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour
grossed more than $130 million.

According to Forbes, Spears is the third highest earning woman in Hollywood,
banking $65 million in 2010. This placed her behind Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé
Knowles, but higher than Lady Gaga and Madonna.

Received her "Walk of Fame Star" in 2003, at the age of 21. She is the youngest
music icon to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Spears was voted as The Number 1 Celebrity You Love Of 2010.

On the 10th of January 2011, Spears' single "Hold It Against Me" set the record
for most radio plays in one day in the United States, registering 619 plays on
Mediabase and 595 plays on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS).

"Hold It Against Me" (January 2011) is Spears' fourth single to debut at Number
1, after her songs "3" (2009), "Womanizer" (2008) and "Baby One More Time"
(1999). According to Nielsen SoundScan "Hold It Against Me" has also netted
411,000 downloads, which marks the highest first-week tally for a female artist.

Spears' single "Hold It Against Me" (January 2011) made a debut at Number 1.
This made her only the second artist in music history to debut more than one
song at Number 1.

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